Definitions For Hinderlin

Noun

HINDERLIN (plural HINDERLINs) (Scotland) Alternative spelling of hinderling A worthless degenerate#noun, degenerate. {{RQ:Strutt Scott Queenhoo-Hall, volume=III, page=155, passage=How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?}} (in the plural) The buttocks. {{RQ:Scott Rob Roy, passage=We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlins.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Michael Scott, title=The Cruise of the Midge, year=1878, page=58, oclc=, passage=And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage—in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins?}} {{quote-book, en, author=Samuel Rutherford Crockett, title=The Dark o’ the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called “Raiders”, year=1902, page=1902, oclc=, passage=My certes! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and—weel, Davie Veitch will no be there!}}